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Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
Kenneth L. Pike

Biography

Author Profession: Sociologist
Nationality: American
Born: June 9, 1912
Died: December 31, 2000

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Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
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God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
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The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
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There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
Kenneth L. Pike

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
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This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.
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Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
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